Mark 10:1-12

Teaching about Divorce

10He left that place and went to the region of Judea and* beyond the Jordan. And crowds again gathered around him; and, as was his custom, he again taught them.

2 Some Pharisees came, and to test him they asked, Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?
3He answered them, What did Moses command you?
4They said, Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her.
5But Jesus said to them, Because of your hardness of heart he wrote this commandment for you.
6But from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female.
7For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife,*8and the two shall become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one flesh.
9Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.

10 Then in the house the disciples asked him again about this matter.
11He said to them, Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her;
12and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.